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Time to Sell Netflix?

First. I responded to THIS post's abuse of the loaded expression, UNLOADING SHARES. The terminology is widely interpreted to indicate a complete or near complete loss of faith in a company by its executives. That's a huge unfounded implication to make on a 10,000 share transaction for a stock that regularly trades 25,338,600 shares a month. Those are the facts, my good friend.

Second. Defamation? Please. The dramatic reaction only serves to reinforce initial observations.

Third. Where did age enter the equation? Immaturity is completely independent of age. I know 60 year olds who completely lack maturity and 16 year olds who model it, impressively. Growing up is a lifelong process, we're all on that path; hopefully.

Further, the objection is to what one considers a grossly inaccurate and potentially damaging headline. Readers are free to disagree with this, but in my insignificant, biased, individual opinion it's immature journalism that reflects poorly on SA. Accusing the writer of something as absurd as 'defamation' for making the observation only further illustrates the need for adult supervision and guidance.

Finally, how is it that you consider yourself free to mischaracterize and defame the CEO of a fine company, and then find plain editorial criticism -- reckless abuse of "unloading shares" in a headline -- as a personal attack? Surely, we all want to believe that you are a perfectly wonderful person, but in this reader's opinion, that kind of headline writing falls far short of the standards for SeekingAlpha.

Time to Sell Netflix?

Characterizing one of Mr. Hastings isolated transactions as "UNLOADING" is a stark violation of the SA Terms of Use. The characterization is FALSE and even the most amateur journalist SHOULD KNOW that it is false. Unjustified use of that word is also potentially "injurious, derisive, and defamatory." I see at least two direct violations of SA's Terms of Use:

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* Post any comment that you either know or should know is false, deceptive or misleading, or misrepresent or deceive others as to the source, accuracy, integrity or completeness of any comment you post.
* Post any comment that is unlawful, harmful or injurious to others, threatening, abusive, offensive, harassing, derisive, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, hatefully, racially, ethnically or otherwise tortious or objectionable.

Time to Sell Netflix?

Yaser Anwar's hyperbole undermines the credibility of Seeking Alpha. To characterize any CEO's measly 10,000 share single transaction as "unloading" is not just misleading, it's LYING. I couldn't care less about NFLX, but the headline itself is hyperventilating hyperbole and should be retracted or edited to salvage SA's rep. Also, somebody better keep a close eye on this guy Anwar and review his work for credibility until he grows up a bit. If not for amar singh's link to form4oracle, this entire page would be a pox upon SA's otherwise good image. Even with thanks to singh, only a diligent reader will get that far and possibly salvage something of use from this otherwise embarrassing SA page. It does not matter that the quarter went on to disappoint, <i>seemingly<... vindicating anwar's empty criticism. Quarters come and quarters go, but writers can really hurt a web site's reputation.